Roots
IrishCentral’s repository of everything to do with your Irish roots – from Irish history, your ancestors, your Irish name, to ancient myth, legend and folklore.
Harry Connick Jr. Irish roots revealed and he thinks they are "so cool"
Why one Spanish region stormed the British Consul General during Irish War of Independence
Eamon De Valera and the Kansas city bandit queen
Michael Collins' close call - his escape across a Dublin rooftop
Irish Australian outlaw Ned Kelly's famous armor
Why has there only been two Catholic US Presidents - JFK and Joe Biden?
How was Newgrange built? Archaeologists long boat discovery could shed some light
Richard Nixon's connection to a small town in County Kildare
This month in history: Suffragette Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington born in Co Cork
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History
Family historians urged to check out 1911 census
Ireland's historical transport records now available online
On This Day: Ellis Island closed its doors in 1954 after admitting millions of immigrants
Why 1969 was the craziest year in Irish American history
Martinmas in Ireland and its geese, blood rites and old customs
Genealogy